PhD studentships

[DR M USHER]

Dear Collegues,

I apologize in advance if  you received this message more than once.
Please bring this to the attention of relevant applicants.

Sincerely, 


Marius Usher, PhD
Reader in Psychology
Birkbeck College, Univ. of London
www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/people/academic/usher_m


I would like to encourage strong candidates (with solid background in
experimental-psychology OR cognitive-science AND in computational methods)
to apply for the following PhD studentship opportunities at the
Birkbeck College.

The School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London offers
supervision in Cognitive Sciences and Computational Cognitive
Neuroscience.

Birkbeck College is part of the University of London and is situated in
the central Bloomsbury area of London. The research environment benefits
from close proximity with the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, the
Gatsby Computational Neurosciences Unit and the Institute of Child Health.
The School of Psychology has a moderate sized dynamic, international
postgraduate community that provides both a cutting edge and intimate
environment for learning and research.

Potential supervisors in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab:

Richard Cooper (http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/people/academic/cooper_r/)
  Models of executive processes and their disorders; relations between
  executive processes and lower-level processes; routine and non-routine
  action selection; monitoring and error correction; modeling tools and
  methodologies.

Denis Mareschal (http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/people/academic/mareshal_d/)
  Constructing and testing models of categorisation in infancy,
  statistical learning models of reasoning in children and infants.

Michael Thomas (http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/people/academic/thomas_m/)
  Modeling of language development in Williams Syndrome; current
  computational approaches to individual differences and intelligence;
  computational models of autism

Marius Usher (http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/people/academic/usher_m/)
  Computational and behavioural studies of verbal short-term memory, 
  language, reasoning and individual and age differences; choice and 
  decision making; visual short-term memory for single and bound visual 
  features; psychophysical studies of temporal interactions in grouping.
  
For more information on the CCN lab see
http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/research/comp/index.html/

Financial support is available on a competitive basis through EPSRC
studentships and internal School of Psychology Studentships.
The School of Psychology also has ESRC recognition. Further information
can be obtained from: http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/
For general inquiries email: s.daniel at psychology.bbk.ac.uk. For specific
inquiries, email one of the potential supervisors.